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10 – 21 OCTOBER bfi.org.uk/lff 020 7928 3232 See the world in a new light. RBC is honoured to be a main sponsor of the 62nd BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express®. Film enriches our lives by connecting us to diverse perspectives and experiences. We are delighted to continue our support of this flourishing film festival, and celebrate the innovation, opportunity and creativity that it represents. To learn more about how we are helping to build vibrant communities through the arts, visit rbcwealthmanagement.com Capital Markets | Investor & Treasury Services | Wealth & Asset Management ® / TM Trademark(s) of Royal Bank of Canada. Used under licence. WELCOME CONTENTS The UK has always offered a welcoming platform for international artists and storytellers, and none more so than the BFI London Film Festival. It is a time when filmmakers from every corner HEADLINE GALAS 09 of the world gather here, among them some of the world’s greatest names in cinema, alongside those at the very beginning of their careers. All of them share a common purpose which is to 16 present their new work to an audience, often at an anxious moment as it is usually only the STRAND GALAS first or second time it’s been seen. Photo: Nancyhoney.com 22 Opening doors for everyone, audiences or filmmakers, is at the heart of the BFI’s purpose. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS The Festival’s sheer breadth of audacious programming brings films that are a window on the world and make us reflect on the UK’s place in it – films that challenge our perspective and that pique our curiosity for fresh ideas and viewpoints. IN COMPETITION 27 The BFI is a charity and this Festival is only able to happen because of the extraordinary generosity of our longstanding partner American Express®, alongside so many other partners, sponsors and funders, not least all the National Lottery LOVE 43 players in the UK whose ticket buying is so vital to champion good causes including film. This is the perfect opportunity to extend our heartfelt thanks to them all and before you delve into the programme, I urge you to join me in loudly DEBATE 51 applauding all our supporters who are listed at the front of this brochure. Amanda Nevill, Chief Executive, BFI LAUGH 57 DARE 63 THRILL 69 09 GALAS & SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 27 IN COMPETITION CULT 73 Join us on the red carpet and see the stars at these Discover the most inspiring, inventive films competing special screenings. for our coveted Awards. JOURNEY 77 CREATE 85 EXPERIMENTA 91 FAMILY 97 TREASURES 101 EDUCATION & INDUSTRY 107 43 STRANDS 97 FAMILY 108 Choose your pathway through the Festival with Films for the young… and the young at heart. EVENTS our carefully curated strands. INDEX OF FILM TITLES 110 PULL-OUT SECTION SCHEDULE & TICKETS Jump to the middle for a pull-out schedule for the whole Festival as well as all the essential information on how to book your tickets. TUMBBAD BILBY We are honoured to partner, 101 TREASURES 108 EVENTS once again, with the BFI Established classics and overlooked gems revived Exclusive talks and discussions with leading London Film Festival, and restored from the world’s archives. filmmakers and creatives. bringing the very best in cinema to our capital this October. American Express® has long been a supporter of film, championing new and established talent and making film more accessible to our Cardmembers – a tradition we look forward to upholding this year. Charlotte Duerden, SOME LIKE IT HOT SCREEN TALK: KEIRA KNIGHTLEY UK Country Manager – American Express UK 3 INTRODUCTION While the BFI London Film Festival is passionately LFF goes UK-wide again this year. For the first time, we host a Special Presentation international, British talent shines from every corner outside of London with Mike Leigh’s sublime Peterloo screening at HOME in of our exciting programme. Our Opening, Closing and Manchester and simulcast to venues across the UK. To make the Festival more American Express Galas are the smashing trio of Widows, open and inclusive, this year we present our Awards in front of a public audience. Stan & Ollie and The Favourite. Each film is international So, if you like surprises grab a £10 ticket (£5 for 25 & Under) for the Best Film, in scope and ambition, but showcases the impressive Best First Feature or Best Documentary programme and be there when we vibrancy of home-grown UK talent. announce that winner and screen their film. And here’s a tip for those who want Many brilliant British filmmakers grace our Gala, Special more of the Festival on a budget: try our Discovery packages – a trio of new films at ‘3 for £30’ from a selection hand-picked by the programmers. Photo: Tim Whitby Presentation, and Official Competition sections, amongst them many LFF alumni: Terry Gilliam, Ralph Fiennes, Our Treasures offer stunning restorations of major works – discoveries as well Carol Morley, Peter Strickland, Ben Wheatley, Wash Westmoreland, Tom Harper, as classics. We’ve pulled these into their own section to make them easier to find. Rachel Maclean, David Mackenzie, Tinge Krishnan. We also welcome UK filmmakers And Screen Talks have already been confirmed with Keira Knightley, Alfonso Cuarón across the whole Festival, including First and Documentary Competition nominees and Lee Chang-dong, with David Hare present for an LFF Connects event. Richard Billingham and Harry Wootliff (the Sutherland Award), and Orlando von We’ll be adding many more of these, so stay tuned. Einsiedel and Steve Sprung (the Grierson Award). On behalf of the Festival’s Managing Director Anne-Marie Flynn and myself, we echo But with 75 countries featured, the 62nd BFI London Film Festival is also a globally Amanda’s thanks to our sponsors, venues and partners. But also applaud our diverse event, and we’re proud to say that 38% of the programme is from female talented and tireless Festival team. It’s a truly collaborative creative effort and directors, up from 24% in 2017. There is still work to do on that front but we’re many labours of love. heading in the right direction. Tricia Tuttle Artistic Director, BFI London Film Festival IN FABRIC TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG, OFFICIAL COMPETITION DOGMAN, SCREENING UK-WIDE ALFONSO CUARÓN ON THE SET OF ROMA RAY & LIZ THE FAVOURITE 4 @BFI #lff WITH THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS AND FUNDERS FOR MAKING IT ALL POSSIBLE PRINCIPAL PARTNER SUPPORTED BY MAIN SPONSORS OFFICIAL PARTNERS MAIN FUNDING CONTRIBUTORS SPONSORS 5 AND THANKS TO OUR WONDERFUL IN-KIND SPONSORS AND PARTNERS IN-KIND SPONSORS mne FOR PRINCIPAL MEDIA PARTNERS BROADCAST & MEDIA PARTNER RADIO PARTNERS PRIORITY FESTI VAL BOOKING JOIN THE BFI FROM £35 FUNDING CONTRIBUTORS AND CULTURAL PARTNERS BOOKING OPENS: 4 SEP Patrons 5 SEP Champions 6 SEP Members 13 SEP Public booking bfi.org.uk/join Image: Mary J Blige at the Royal Bank of Canada Gala screening of Mudbound at the 61st BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® 6 FOR PRIORITY FESTI VAL BOOKING JOIN THE BFI FROM £35 BOOKING OPENS: 4 SEP Patrons 5 SEP Champions 6 SEP Members 13 SEP Public booking bfi.org.uk/join Image: Mary J Blige at the Royal Bank of Canada Gala screening of Mudbound at the 61st BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® SWISSBLOCKBUSTER. 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Academy Award® winner and BFI Fellow Steve Steve McQueen and co-writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), Prod Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Hunger, Shame) opens offer a strikingly contemporary reworking of Lynda Steve McQueen, the Festival in pulsating style with this female-fuelled La Plante’s groundbreaking 1980s television series, Arnon Milchan. HEADLINE GALAS Scr Gillian Flynn, heist thriller that features a cast to die for. relocating the action to Chicago, with a local election Steve McQueen. With Viola Davis, When Veronica’s husband (Viola Davis and Liam Neeson, exposing race and class conflict, along with political Michelle Rodriguez, respectively) is killed during a daring heist, she and the corruption, in urban America. Robert Duvall and Colin Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, wives of the men he worked with discover money was Farrell are the Mulligans, heading up an Irish family who’ve Colin Farrell. long controlled and enriched themselves from city politics, UK-USA 2018. owed to some particularly nasty people. And now they 130min. want it back. Where the title ‘widows’ might suggest while Daniel Kaluuya shows vicious bite as a character UK Distribution determined to change the balance of power by any means. Twentieth Century Fox women defined by their husbands’ absence, McQueen turns this idea its head as Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, An exacting, formally precise filmmaker, McQueen’s take Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo find empowerment on genre was always going to be something special; and unexpected solidarity in tackling their men’s regular collaborators cinematographer Sean Bobbitt and unfinished business.